Captain Benjamin L. E. Bonneville travels to the Rocky Mountains where he attempts to gain a foothold in the fur trading business.
Captain Benjamin Bonneville, using wagons, managed in 1832 to transport a large enough stock of goods to the Rocky Mountains for trade to last for two full years. He erects Fort Bonneville, often called Fort Nonsense by other Mountain Men, near Green River in present-day Wyoming. The question still exists today as to whether Bonneville was, in addition to being funded by Astor, scooping out the best tactics for the military to use to prevent the British from advancing eastward into the Rocky Mountains and taking over the fur trade of the Americans.
